Obviously. Can anyone reproduce this though?
There's an actual feature to try and mitigate this and doesn't seem to work, atleast on my system. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to rsyslog in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1618229 Title: rsyslogd terminal escape sequences injection Status in rsyslog package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Hi, It seems to me that it is possible to inject terminal escape sequences into log files via syslog(3) # tail -f /var/log/messages Aug 23 13:50:33 ghetto kernel: ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\_GPE._L10] (Node ffff88017b0e47d0), AE_NOT_FOUND (20141107/psparse-536) (*) Aug 23 13:50:33 ghetto kernel: ACPI Exception: AE_NOT_FOUND, while evaluating GPE method [_L10] (20141107/evgpe-581) $ logger `printf 'HELLO\n\033[2AAAAAAAAAAAAAA\033[2B'` # tail -f /var/log/messages Aug 23 13:50:33 ghetto kernel: ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\_GPE._L10] (Node ffff88017b0e47d0), AE_NOT_FOUND (20141107/psparse-536) (*) Aug 23 13:50:33 ghetto kernel: ACPI AAAAAAAAAAAAA_NOT_FOUND, while evaluating GPE method [_L10] (20141107/evgpe-581) Aug 23 13:50:39 ghetto saken: HELLO On the (*) line, the escape sequence changed its contents, meaning that an unprivileged user can take advantage of this to hide their presence on the system by changing legitimate logs, modify a window's title, change background and foreground color, etc. While researching this, I found that rsyslogd has "$EscapeControlCharactersOnReceive" which claims that is on by default and that "The intent is to provide a way to stop non-printable messages from entering the syslog system as whole." On my system, this does not seem to be true, and actually went ahead and added "$EscapeControlCharactersOnReceive on" to the /etc/rsyslog.conf file, restarted rsyslog and the problem still persists. I am using rsyslogd 7.4.8 Thanks, Federico Bento. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rsyslog/+bug/1618229/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
